German literary theorists

Karl Vossler (6 September 1872 – 19 September 1949 in Munich) was a German linguist and scholar, and a leading Romanist.

Heinrich Julian Schmidt (March 7, 1818 – March 27, 1886) was a German journalist and historian of literature.

Friedrich A. Kittler (June 12, 1943 – October 18, 2011) was a literary scholar and a media theorist.

Claus Victor Bock (7 May 1926 – 5 January 2008) was a professor of German studies.

Gustav Karpeles (November 11, 1848, Ivanovice na Hané, Margraviate of Moravia – 1909) was a German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah Karpeles.

Albert Shultz (1802–1893) was a German writer on mediaeval literature, especially the Arthurian legends.

Erwin Rohde (French: [ˈʀoːdə]; October 9, 1845 – January 11, 1898) was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th century.

Hans Mayer (March 19, 1907 in Cologne – May 19, 2001 in Tübingen) was a German literary scholar.

Hermann Kurz (30 November 1813 – 10 October 1873) was a German poet and novelist.

Julius Leopold Klein (1810 - 2 August 1876) was a German writer of Jewish origin born at Miskolc, Hungary.

Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.

Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G.

Wolfgang Iser (22 July 1926 – 24 January 2007) was a German literary scholar.

Gerhard Lauer (born November 14, 1962) is a German Literary scholar.

Guy Stern (born January 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany) is a German-Jewish scholar of literature, primarily German and comparative.

Andreas Tscherning (18 November 1611 – 27 September 1659) was a German poet, hymn writer and literary theorist in the tradition of Martin Opitz.

Steffen Martus (born Karlsruhe, 1968) is a German Literary scholar and Professor of Modern German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Trude Richter (born Magdeburg 19 November 1899; died Leipzig 4 January 1989) was a writer, literary scholar and teacher who became a political activist.

Michael Scheffel (born 27 February 1958, Frankfurt) is a professor for the history of modern German literature and more generally of Literary sciences at Wuppertal University.

August Max Closs (9 August 1898 – 21 June 1990) was a professor of German studies.